"Minecraft" Birthday Present!

Today I made a similar recipe to the Speculaas but with Cocoa to make the biscuits Brown (This didn't really work) The Aim of this was for it to look like the game "Minecraft" because my friend who plays Minecraft with me had a birthday and I though that this would be a suitable present.
I also didn't add as much Baking soda. But the taste was still quite nice.

                                         At first I thought it would be really easy, then I realised a few problems:. The Cookie weren't brown enough, The cookie wasn't very thick and so for the cubes to be correctly shaped that I would be stuck with heaps of little cubes and also that (it was 11pm at night) I was tired and so when I was
cutting the shapes they turned out a bit sad, because as you can see I didn't cut them very evenly (Photo Right).

This is what it looked like at the end (Photo Below)

Finished Product.

Dutch Spiced Cookie (Speculaas)

 These Cookies were AMAZING! but that might

 just be because they are my favourite type of Cookies, But I guess I shouldn't have posted them
Because there Biscuits not Cookies. 
This didn't stop them from being Crunchy, Soft, Good Texture and of course lovely Mixed Spice taste!
I would definitely recommend using this recipe.
And there is nothing That the recipe could improve on! But I did have a personal fault, I didn't put the oven on at the beginning! I forgot and did it while I was cutting out the shapes, And so I thought that to make the oven heat faster I would put it on 250 degrees Celsius And I forgot to fix it later. so
The first batch was Brilliant because the oven hadn't fully heated but the second batch was

 Burned on the outside and still soft on the inside. 

So remember to turn the oven on before you start to give it time to heat up!

Ingredients: 

250 g Flour

175 g Butter

140 g Brown Sugar

1 level Tablespoon ground mixed spice [or 2 if you love spices]

1 level Tablespoon ground cinnamon

1/2 Teaspoon ground cloves

50 ml Milk

2 pinches Baking Soda

Instructions: 

Cream butter and sugar until soft and creamy, mix in other ingredients until a smooth soft dough is formed. Shape dough into two rolls of 3-5 cm diameter

Leave dough to rest 30 minutes in fridge for the spice flavor to develop.

Cut dough in 1 cm rounds and place on 2 lightly greased cookie sheets, with space for spreading. Alternatively you can also roll the dough out flat and cut out shapes. Bake at 180c for about 15 minutes or until cooked. Transfer to cooling rack or a cold cookie sheet until cold. Makes 40 biscuits

Optional: You can press crushed nuts, slivered almonds or a walnut on top of biscuits before baking.

Chocolate Cookies (Cookies #10)

 

Ingredients.

Today I made Chocolate Cookies (Made up the recipe) These turned out okay. but..... They were a lot like Cake Mixture and not like Cookie Dough. They would have made good Muffins!

   For Ingredients look at Photo (above)

  The Method Is pretty simple
  1. Blend Oats and place in bowl with other dry ingredients.

  2. Melt Butter and pour into bowl with brown sugar. 

  3. Add eggs, Vanilla and any other wet ingredients.

  4. Sift dry ingredients into Mixture and stir.

  5. Roll into balls and place on baking tray, Then Cook at 170 degrees Celsius,    Until Liking.(Golden Brown)!  

Lemon Grass, Mint and Flower Petal Tea

 I cheated this time. My Dad bought some Already dried stuff (Peppermint, Spearmint, Flower leaves (Red) and Lemon grass. And I merely Mixed
Them together. But it tasted good. Not so sure that It would go to well with Cookies, But that doesn't really matter.

Cornflake Cookies...

 Now while cooking these cookies, I was a bit Distracted... And so I read the first half of this recipe and unfortunately, I guessed the last 2 steps.
Which meant that While it said "Roll dough into balls and roll in Cornflakes'
I thought (Guessed) that it said "Crush Cornflakes and add to mixture"
So I had a horrible grainy mixture.
And then, About the 3rd Batch, I Left them and went to watch TV, I came back 30mins later to find a Smoke-Filled Oven and some Burned pieces of black Char.

Unfortunately I seem to have lost the recipe.
(But thats not Necessarily a bad thing)But If you search "Cornflake Cookies" In Google I'm sure you will find it.

Chewy Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies

The amazing Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie! Which had a wonderful texture,
But lacked in taste, strangely this was because of too much sugar.
Which being a youth I find hard to believe, but its true. I recommend that
if you try this recipe that you half the sugar, or at least Not quite as much.

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• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

                                                        

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
2. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
4. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. Hope They work for you!

Citrus Tea (Lemon Myrtle, Kaffir Lime and Mint Tea)

Dried Mint + Cirus Leaves.

 I have been dying Mint, Lemon Myrtle 
and Kaffir Lime Leaves:
This took much longer than expected,
and had an extremely strong aroma which was a little
sickening.
I then made tea in my Ecology Tea Cup,
these are very handy when making tea by oneself,
but lack in the size of a Teapot when making tea for many.
Now the tea itself had a strange taste, as though the mint had
fermented, not in a bad way, but it wasn't Perfect,
the tea wasnt strong enough but the flavour althouh weak still
seamed to overwhelm you.

Next time I will hopefully use Lemongrass in my tea, this is a lovely tasting
herb/grass that can often be found in juices and many Asian Dishes.